[asterisk-users] Running Multiple Instances of Asterisk

[James Texter]

Doug,
    I actually see this as a pretty logical way to solve the problem.
Please keep us posted if you have any luck sorting out running multiple
instances, or mail me off-list if no one else is interested.

Thanks,


On 9/25/06 1:52 PM, "Douglas Garstang" <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brian Rogan [mailto:brogan at syderial.com]
>> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 12:40 PM
>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Running Multiple Instances of Asterisk
>> 
>> 
>> Doug,
>> 
>> Why do you want to do this to begin with?  I think the best
>> solution is
> Because we are trying to build a hosted IPT solution, not an enterprise
> solution.
> 
>> to use the realtime stuff, and build your own management tools, which
>> would allow you to do this (you could drastically cut the complexity
>> with the right tools).  Even if you could run them together, how
>> would you put everything on the appropriate ports?  How would you deal
>> with multiple instances accessing hardware?
> 
> Realtime is resource intensive, requiring many queries to perform simple
> lookups. We can easily create multiple virtual IP address, and since each
> virtual IP address can bind to port 5060, each phone can register with
> domain.com:5060 without a problem. We don't need multiple instances to access
> hardware as this is a SIP only solution. Our PSTN access is via external
> Audiocodes gateways, not via Digium T1 cards.
> 
> The dial plan was not able to handle the complexity we needed (for example the
> MySQL() application command could not do nested queries), and so right now, we
> have a 2000 line python script and several very complex MySQL stored
> procedures in order to fulfull our requirements.
> 
>> 
>> I'm not convinced that maintaining the config files, binaries
>> and other
>> components of multiple asterisk's is easier than just building better
>> tools to configure one.
> 
> I am. I look at our configuration which is currently for one customer, and
> there's already several dozen contexts in order to cover a lot of complexity.
> Multiply that by a couple of hundred, and I won't want to be administering it!
> 
>> 
>> You could also try User-Mode-Linux or something like that.
> 
> I was going to give v-servers a try. There's a guide at:
> http://www.telephreak.org/papers/vpa/
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James Texter